Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his...

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally...

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she...

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Officer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad...

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to...